read my weight in books

01.] The Complete Maus: A Survivor’s Tale
02.] Night
03.] Joy in the Morning
04.] Graphotypes
05.] Gulliver’s Island
06.] The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
07.] The Five People You Meet in Heaven
08.] Love in the Time of Cholera (Waiting for the good part)
09.] Death Be Not Proud
10.] Much Ado About Nothing (Arden)

I’m not counting children’s books for now at least.

Hm, well I finished Gulliver’s Island last week or so.

I just started a book called The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Hoddon. It is interesting so far and it does draw you in from the first paragraph.

The thought of reading a book in Spanish crossed my mind (again) today. The idea is appealing to me and most likely…okay it would be challenging but it seems like a good thing to try.

So, I finished Maus on Sunday…I am going to start Night in a few days. I would have finished Joy in the Morning by Betty Smith but I lost it when I had just thirty pages left (how will I ever know what happened? ;)...err, I hope someone found it and returned to the library because I’ll have to pay for it. I’m in the middle of Graphotypes which is about handwriting analysis obviously. [Breathes] That was a bunch of books to mention…oh and I plan to pick Anna Karenin back up now.

Day One

The book I’ve started is The Complete Maus: A Survivor’s Tale. The title is in German and it is pronuced mouse in case you were wondering. Pretty snazzy spin on the spelling right?

Orginially there were two volumes but it has been intergrated into one which is what I’m reading. It is a graphic novel as well as a historical memoir. The inside front flap is a good place to look to get the gist of the book. ;]

It was actually assigned to me for a class and so I tried not to read too much of it today since I’m basically suppose to read about a hundred pages a week and then write certain things…so I’ll be finished with it the the first day of October.

Now, a few weeks ago I started Anna Karenin. I suppose I should that include that in this list since I am still reading it.

What I’ve noticed is I usually put a book down for a while after I’ve read about 150 pages of it (which is half-way for most books). Am I the only one who does this?

Admittedly, this goal was stolen from a friend of a friend. But I like the concept and I’m gonna give it a shot. What the hell, right?

Have not been very good about the weighing aspect of this goal, but I’m betting once I get around to it I’ll discover I’m well on my way. Hopefully.